NAXOS' CLASSICAL MUSIC
SPOTLIGHT PODCASTS AVAILABLE ON NAXOS.COM, iTUNES MUSIC STORE

Mini-documentaries part of
long-term Naxos plan to make classical music available through the internet

In its continuing exploration of the digital world,
Naxos is now offeringan ongoing series of podcasts titled
Classical Music Spotlight. With these podcasts,
Naxos carries its commitment to education and developing new audiences
into cyberspace.

Each 20-minute mini-documentary looks at some aspect of the
music, the history, and the people that make up classical music; they
are FREE for anyone who wishes to listen to or download them.
Topics so far include Thomas Tallis, Kurt Weill, Peter Boyer, Benjamin
Britten, Timpani Concertos, and the music of William Boyce.
For streaming versions, go to www.Naxos.com
and click on “podcasts.” For downloadable versions,
or to subscribe to the ongoing series, go through the iTunes Music Store.

The podcasts are written, narrated and produced for Naxos byRaymond Bisha, a long-time employee whose previous careers include
professional classical musician, and Music Producer for CBC Radio in Canada.

Naxos’s podcasts are the latest in a series of initiatives
that Naxos and its American distributor, Naxos of America, have taken
to expand the reach of the label’s music into the digital realm.

Earlier this summer, Naxos of America announced a worldwide digital
distribution deal with The Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA)
and added thousands of Naxos tracks to the OverDrive Digital Library Reserve,
a service that makes digital versions of the world's greatest classical
recordings available for downloading through library web sites.

Naxos is a strong presence in the iTunes Music Store, with its
CDs regularly appearing in the top ten albums for classical releases;
its tracks are also available on Real Network’s Rhapsody, MSN, and
Napster.

Naxos currently also leads the way in digital streaming of classical
music, with three different services available to consumers and institutions.
Naxos Music Library (www.naxosmusiclibrary.com)
makes the entire Naxos catalogue--plus a number of other labels' recordings--available
online in either CD quality (128 K) or near-CD quality (64K). Naxos
has been marketing this service primarily to libraries and educational
institutions and currently has over 500 institutions and 270 individual
subscribers.

Naxos Web Radio (www.NaxosRadio.com)
offers over 60 commercial-free channels in near-CD quality of classical
music, jazz, blues, nostalgia, historical, world, folk and new age programmed
by style and category. Visitors to Naxos.comcan register at the site to receive information from Naxos; the web
site currently has 178,000 subscribers.

All Naxos Historical, Naxos Classical Archives, Naxos Jazz, Folk and Rock Legends
and Naxos Nostalgia titles are not available in the United States and some titles
may not be available in Australia and Singapore because these countries have copyright
laws that provide or may provide for terms of protection for sound recordings that
differ from the rest of the world.